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2005.67.2

Imprint on paper made using a stamp for making designs on bread [1900.13.2]. [SM (Verve) 11/02/2015]

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2005.67.2

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Collection type
Object
Description
Imprint on paper made using a stamp for making designs on bread [1900.13.2]. [SM (Verve) 11/02/2015]
Person
Maker Unknown Maker
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Unknown Source
Date / Period
Date made: Unknown
Date collected
Unknown
Acquisition information
Found unentered: 2005
Materials and processes
Material Paper Plant
Dimensions
Diameter: max 296 mm including handle
Object numbers
Accession number: 2005.67.2
Research and responses

E-mail correspondence from Dr Carolyne Larrington (Faculty of English, University of Oxford) to Helen Adams on 12 August 2015: "Outer circle: SJER HVER MAÐUR ROMI, SÁR AÐ GRENNIST SULTAR NAUÐ; Second circle: BLESSI HERRAN ÞETTA VORT Á BORÐI BRAUÐ; Inner circle: FRÓNI ÁRTAL 1876 JD. One assumes this is a rhyming couplet - nauð, brauð. Iceland (Frón is a poetic word for Iceland) and we think that JD is the maker's initials (as it might be Jón Daníelsson, or similar). Read from the inside to the outside, the inscription translates as, 'May the Lord bless this bread on our table in order to diminish the sore pain of hunger; this every single man should say. Iceland the year 1876. JD'. With thanks to Ragnheiður Mósesdóttir and Margrét Eggertsdóttir." [HA 12/08/2015]

Search terms: Food and Drink, Tool, Technique, Stamp, Food Accessory, Paper

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